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To find the PSAC Regional Representative responsible for your Local and a link to the website or contact information for that Local, use ctrl-f and search for your Local number. Click on a staff person's name to send them an email.

Janelle Ho Shing : Regional Representative (Janelle is currently on leave - Jessica Kerek is looking after this portfolio)

Janelle is responsible for he following locals in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley as well as the Political Action, National Human Rights Committee, Mainland Human Rights Committee portfolios. She also coordinates the work of the East Fraser Valley Area Council and is the Mobilization Coordinator for members in the CMHC Granville Island, Purolator, and FB bargaining units

Deanna is responsible for the following locals in the North and Downtown Vancouver as well as the NorthWest and NorthEast Area Councils. She holds the Young Workers' portfolio and coordinates the work of the National Aboriginal Peoples Circle in BC. She also coordinates bargaining mobilization for our Canada Post members in BC.

A familiar face to CEIU members, Patricia is enjoying working at the Vancouver Regional Office. Chances are good that she'll be the person answering the phone when you call! Patricia has been with CEIU/PSAC since 1985.

Deb has been a union member throughout her working life, including almost 20 years as a PSAC member working for Canada Post Corporation. She began working for PSAC as an Acting Regional Representative and then in December 2002 started working fulltime in her substantive position as the PSAC Grievance and Adjudication Officer for BC and the Yukon. Her duties involved providing representation at arbitration hearings for PSAC members anywhere in Canada. In December 2013, Deb became the Regional Education Officer, where she plans to apply her administration skills, love of education and knowledge gained throughout her 34 years as a worker to assist the staff to provide training for the members that broadens and strengthens the labour movement within the BC Region.

Robert is responsible for the following locals in the Okanagan/Kootenays and Surrey/Delta/Langley. He is also responsible for the Okanagan and West Fraser Valley Area Councils and the Okanagan Human Rights Committee, and is the Regional Mobilization Coordinator for the Treasury Board PA EB SV and TC bargaining units and NavCan.

Monica previously worked for the Federal Government and was a PSAC member for eight years, involved at local, regional, and national levels. She started her activism through youth and women's issues in the Filipino and broader community and saw a need to bridge this social activism with the union movement. As a PSAC Regional Representative she continues to put her experiences to work for the benefit of the members. Monica is responsible for the following Downtown and Metro Vancouver locals, coordinates the work of Vancouver, North, Okanagan, and Victoria Regional Womens Committes and the Vancouver & District Area Council, as well as being the Mobilization Coordinator for CFIA and SSO members in BC and the Alternate Mobilization coordinator for the Purolator bargaining unit. Monica also holds the International Solidarity portfolio.

I began working for the Government of Canada in April 1980. My 19th birthday was celebrated one week before this. I was a CR-2 in an Unemployment Insurance (now called Employment Insurance) office when I walked my first picket line during the September 1980 CR strike. In 1981 (in May if memory serves) I got a CR-3 position at “CIC Metro” in Vancouver, the regional office for Immigration Canada. Then in September 1981 I got a CR-4 position with Labour Canada. Labour Canada became part of Human Resources Development Canada when it was formed in 1994. While working for Labour Canada and HRDC I held a variety of positions with Local executives in the National Component. The union officer position I held the longest was that of Local Secretary. I stayed with Labour until being assigned to HRDC’s Finance section in 1997. I worked for HRDC (now HRSDC and SDC) until November 2003 when I started working with Deb Seaboyer and Moe Ritchie in the Vancouver Satellite Office, Collective Bargaining Branch of the PSAC.

James is the Regional Representative in Victoria. He is responsible for all these Vancouver Island locals, the Victoria and North Vancouver Island Area Councils, the Vancouver Island Human Rights Committee and the Vancouver Island Young Workers Committee. James is also the Regional Mobilization Coordinator for the Parks and CRA bargaining units in BC.

Rosemary became a member of PSAC in 1981 back in Ottawa. In the mid 1990’s, after relocating BC, she became Local President / National Officer / RVP for NRU 20088. She started out as A/Secretary for the Victoria Regional Office in November 2003. In May 2004, she became the Admin Assistant. Rosemary enjoys the interaction with the members she serves on the Island. One of her main interests is her Harley-Davidson FLHX Street Glide.